One of the head-scratching choices by the Seattle Kraken at last month’s expansion draft came from the Chicago Blackhawks. Instead of taking RFA Nikita Zadorov, who was flipped by the Blackhawks for a third-round pick a few days after the draft, or Adam Gaudette, who accepted his $997K qualifying offer, the Kraken basically decided to forfeit the pick. They selected minor league forward John Quenneville, who was a Group VI unrestricted free agent and quite a bit removed from his first-round draft pedigree.
The Kraken never signed Quenneville, and now the 25-year-old forward is looking for work overseas. He has signed a tryout with the ZSC Lions to help them with their Champions League games later this month. Whether it goes beyond that remains to be seen, but it seems obvious that Quenneville won’t be helping the Kraken anytime soon.
A talented junior player, Quenneville was originally picked 30th overall by the New Jersey Devils in 2014. He made his NHL debut during the 2016-17 season, but has just 44 games under his belt overall. With just two points in 16 AHL games for the Rockford IceHogs in 2020-21, his status has never been further from the NHL. Now he’ll try to get that career back on track overseas, playing for one of the most popular and successful teams in Europe.
couldn’t even get a gurantee? oof.
I dont get it. Whatever we don’t know must be huge because not from anybody’s perspective does this make sense.
Francis and bowman grew up together and were best men at eachothers weddings, that’s the only explanation that makes sense
or just they didnt want any of their exposed players
Seattle’s moves were completely puzzling. Why take a career minor leaguer who you don’t intend to sign when you could have taken an asset like Zadorov and signed or traded him? It’s beyond dumb. Same goes for Bayreuther. They could have easily taken a player like Stenlund who has actual value.
I agree. Giving Francis the benefit of the doubt for now but many of his picks were very puzzling. This team doesn’t even remotely look like a playoff team.
No question, Francis screwed this one and at least a few others up. The jury is already back on this one and a few others.
Why does it look like SEA is trying to alienate the fan base before they even have one? At least it may go down as one of the worst expansion drafts in NHL history, if it hasn’t been voted there already.
Head scratcher describes it perfectly IMO. Maybe that Sketchy video guy has some bad film on Francis. LOL